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The application I first started working on after switching jobs to Mobiata has been released! FlightTrack for Android is now available on any Android-powered device. Yay.
I'm pretty shocked at the development pace for mobile devices. It is light speed in comparison to my Oracle work. In the 2+ years I worked at Oracle, we didn't have a single major release due to constant delays (the running joke being "we're releasing 6-9 months the current date"). In comparison, I've been working at Mobiata for five weeks and we've already released two apps (mine, as well as TripDeck for iPhone).
I'm enjoying working at home. It affords many great benefits: I can listen to music on speakers, I can easily do those errands that can only be done during work hours, I can get packages delivered to my apartment. And yes, I work in my underwear sometimes. By far the strangest benefit is weight loss; I've lost about one pound each week I've worked at Mobiata. That may not seem like much, but I've been trying for years to drop a few pounds (back to my college-era weight), and in the span of five weeks I'm most of the way there. I'm going to need to buy a new belt because my current one looks like a wreck, it's been worn on so many notches that it is all wrinkly.
I am still at a loss to explain the weight change exactly, because I'm not eating any healthier (nor exercising any more than before). I think it has to do with a different eating schedule. When I worked at Oracle, I would wake up and eat breakfast around 8:30, and my coworkers and I would get lunch at 11:00. That meant I'd overeat for a bit in the morning, and then I'd be starving by the time I got home around 18:00, so I'd have eat extra then, too. Now I just eat little meals and snacks when I feel peckish.
Anyways, things are going pretty well at camp Daniel.
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While I was visiting California two months ago, my parents took Musetta and I whitewater rafting. My parents, former raft guides, have taken me on many fun trips so I always try to get them to go on another whenever I happen to be in California. We took a trip down the Gorge on a good day, got a few good waves to ride on and whatnot.
"River booty" is the term for items found floating around, and I managed to snag some midway through our trip. I spotted a hat in the water and we grabbed it. It was a black Astros hat and inside the rim were two names - one an indecipherable signature (aren't they all), the second a printed name that looked like an identifier of sorts.
I took the hat with me back home, thinking that (given the power of the Internet) I might be able to find the owner of this hat. The name inside wasn't a common one, so my first instinct was to jump on Facebook and search for the name. I managed to turn up 14 potential candidates, and from there I was able to throw out a few results because I assumed that only someone from Texas would wear an Astros hat. I messaged them telling them that I'd found a hat.
Within a few hours I actually got a positive response, with details on where he lost of the hat that corroborated with the location where I found it. Amazingly enough, I'd managed to track down the Texan who had lost his hat in California. I eventually got around to sending him his hat back, and today I got a thank-you gift in response: a Texas Longhorns hat. I'm not really a big hat person but I appreciate the sentiment.
Anyways, just goes to show the amazing things you can do with the internet these days. Ten years ago, that hat would've been ditched, a hopelessly lost item. I'm beginning to think that people would be better off writing e-mail addresses on their stuff instead of names nowadays.
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